Victory at Sea

Victory at Sea: IJN Fleet    For centuries, Japan's policy of seclusion (sakoku) saw it concentrate on coastal defences in order to repel foreign v...

Victory at Sea: Battle for the Pacific Starter Set   Victory at Sea is the game of naval combat during the Second World War. Throughout 1939–45, th...

Witnessing massed airpower at the Battle of Taranto, the Japanese were quick to master the tactic, as seen in their infamous attack on Pearl Harbor...

Victory at Sea - IJN Submarines & MTB sections  Submarines: The Kaidai-7-class, or KD-7, was developed in the late 1930s, following on from the...

Victory at Sea Fubuki-class Destroyers   Described as the world’s first “modern” destroyer, twenty-four of the class served in the Imperial Japanes...

Victory at Sea - Kagero-class Destroyers   Essentially an enlarged Fubuki-class, the Kagerō-class hull design was scaled up to overcome earlier des...

Victory At Sea - Soryu As the lead ship of her class of fleet carriers, the Sōryū was built around a sleek cruiser-style hull and powerful engines,...

Victory at Sea – Shōkako The two ships of the Shōkaku-class (Shōkaku and Zuikaku) were used with extreme effectiveness in many engagements within t...

Victory at Sea - Zuikaku   Zuikaku ( 瑞鶴 “Auspicious Crane”), a Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier, along with her sister ship, were the most successful...

Victory at Sea – Musashi  By a large margin, the Yamato and Musashi were the largest battleships ever built and were the product of advancing Japan...

Victory At Sea - Nagato  The flagship of the Japanese fleet during the attack on Pearl Harbor, the i was also the first battleship in the world to ...

Originally laid down as an Amagi-class battlecruiser, the stipulations of the Washington Treaty resulted in her conversion to an aircraft carrier. ...

Victory at Sea Japanese Kirishima  The Kongō-class, dating from 1912, was rebuilt between 1927 and 1931 and was thereafter re-rated as a battleship...

Victory at Sea - Yahagi   Yahagi was the third of the Agano class of light cruiser, intended to be the flagship of a destroyer flotilla. She was co...

Victory at Sea - Mikuma 1942   The second of the four Mogami class heavy cruisers, Mikuma was completed in 1935 but quickly underwent refits to rep...

Victory at Sea - KongoKongō (金剛, “Indestructible Diamond”), named for the mountain, was the first battleship of her class, serving in both the firs...

Victory at Sea: Yamato    Yamato (大和, "Great Harmony") and her sister ship, Musashi, were constructed shortly before the outbreak of World War II. ...

Victory at Sea Agano  The Agano-class was designed as a swift and lightly armoured replacement for the aging Tenryu, Kuma and Nagara classes. They ...

Victory at Sea - Japanese Aichi D3A1 Val Flights A naval dive bomber with many similarities to the German Ju 87 Stuka, the Val was armed with two ...